BACKGROUND & AIMS
AIM2 plays an important role in innate immunity, but its role in regulating the immune response to hepatitis B virus (HBV) is unknown. We hypothesized that AIM2 expression is positively correlated with HBV-mediated inflammation in patients with HBV-associated glomerulonephritis (HBV-GN), potentiating inflammation and leading to renal… (More)

Although the radiation force balance is the gold standard for measuring ultrasound intensity, it cannot be used for real-time monitoring in certain settings, for example, bioreactors or in the clinic to measure ultrasound intensities during treatment. Foreseeing these needs, we propose a close-proximity thermoacoustic sensor. In this article, we describe… (More)

Riskless interest rate and volatility are two important variables in option pricing model, but are hard to be estimated precisely. The concept of fuzziness is used to describe these variables in this paper. We apply fuzzy set theory to the American put option valuation and extend the fuzzy option pricing model by introducing riskless interest rate and… (More)

The semi-stadium system is composed of a semicircular cap and a rectilinear platform. In this study, a dynamic model of the side, position, and angle variables is applied to investigate the acoustic ray chaos of the architectural semi-stadium system. The Lyapunov exponent is calculated in order to quantitatively describe ray instability. The model can be… (More)

Over the past decades, we have witnessed the growth demands of portable lab-on-chip biosensors. These lab-on-chip devices are mostly powered by battery, and intelligent power management systems are required to provide supply voltage for different functional units on biosensors (e.g. a microfluidic control system might require higher voltage than the rest… (More)

The main goal of this paper is to investigate the presence of jumps in Shanghai Inter-bank Offered Rate (SHIBOR), which is Chinese money market benchmark interest rate, and compare interest rate models of SHIBOR based on MCMC Method. Although SHIBOR has become an important interest rate, on which a lot of derivatives underlie, it is less studied. The Markov… (More)